By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – European Central Bank Executive Board member Philip Lane on Monday extolled the solid anchoring of financial market expectations and highlighted the importance of this for monetary policy.
22 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank could hike or pause at either of its next three meetings, but in any case should wrap up its hiking cycle by September at the latest, ECB Governing Council member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
22 May 2023
By David Barwick – VIENNA (Econostream) – Policymakers should make sure that their tools will actually work as intended, and policies should be designed to mitigate any reluctance to deploy them, European Central Bank Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said Monday.
22 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank’s process of monetary tightening is not quite at an end, ECB Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Monday.
22 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras on Sunday reiterated his expectation of a return of Greek sovereign debt to investment grade soon.
21 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank will not pause its rate hikes at its upcoming meeting, based on data available today, President Christine Lagarde said on Sunday.
21 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Inflation is looking stickier than the European Central Bank anticipated in its March projections, Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Friday.
19 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Financial stability concerns do not pose an obstacle to the European Central Bank’s hiking cycle, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said on Friday.
19 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of key recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 4 May.
19 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – It is becoming more difficult to reach consensus on the European Central Bank Governing Council as the ECB reaches the end of its hiking cycle, President Christine Lagarde said on Friday.
19 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The European Central Bank said on Friday that recent wage agreements posed an upside risk to the inflation outlook, with wage pressures becoming an ever more important driver of underlying inflation.
19 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Governing Council leaks about monetary policy are frequent and have a sizable impact on financial markets, according to a blog published by the European Central Bank on Friday.
19 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – European Central Bank Governing Council member Constantinos Herodotou on Thursday said that despite the decline of headline inflation and the ‘significant tightening’ seen in financing conditions, uncertainty remained high.
18 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – The following is an overview of key recent comments made by European Central Bank Governing Council members with respect to monetary policy. We include only comments made since the Governing Council meeting of 4 May.
17 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Growth prospects hinge on whether inflation subsides, European Central Bank Governing Council member Pablo Hernández de Cos said Wednesday.
17 May 2023
By David Barwick – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Core inflation has to be headed lastingly downward for the European Central Bank to stop hiking interest rates, ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
17 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Housing investment in the euro area has been less affected by monetary policy tightening than in the United States because mortgage markets are less indebted, leveraged and securitised, the ECB said on Wednesday.
17 May 2023
By Xavier D’Arcy – PARIS (Econostream) – Following is the full transcript of the interview conducted by Econostream on 03 May with Agence France Trésor Chief Executive Cyril Rousseau:
17 May 2023
- AFT's Rousseau sees ‘slightly higher demand’ for domestic inflation-linked products
- AFT's Rousseau: 10% inflation-linked target ‘not a fixed target but rather a soft one’
- AFT's Rousseau: ‘Don’t think de-anchoring is the main explanation’ for inflation swaps trading high
- AFT's Rousseau: Looks like resumption of money market activities by sovereigns ‘have not destabilised the market’
By Xavier D’Arcy – FRANKFURT (Econostream) – Lower-income households have suffered more from rising prices of late, but government support has alleviated some of the effects of the recent inflation surge, the European Central Bank said on Tuesday.
16 May 2023